Texas outfielder Josh Hamilton was a runaway winner of the American League's Most Valuable Player award.
Hamilton received 22 first-place votes and 358 points in voting announced Tuesday by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Hamilton overcame eight trips to rehabilitation for drug and alcohol addiction to lead the major leagues in batting average (.359) and slugging percentage (.633) and help the Rangers reach their first World Series. He had 32 homers and 100 RBIs despite missing time with two broken ribs.
Hamilton is the sixth Rangers MVP, following Jeff Burroughs (1974), Juan Gonzalez (1996, 1998), Ivan Rodriguez (1999) and Alex Rodriguez (2003).
Joey Votto was voted NL MVP on Monday. Votto and Hamilton were together on the Reds in 2007.
Selected by Tampa Bay with the top pick in the 1999 amateur draft, Hamilton didn't make an impact in the majors until 2008, when he won the all-star Home Run Derby at Yankee Stadium and led the AL with 130 RBIs.
Huff stays with Giants. Aubrey Huff took a short break to decompress after the World Series, then wasted little time accomplishing his off-season plan: re-signing with the San Francisco Giants.
Huff is staying put with San Francisco just as he'd hoped, agreeing to a $22 million, two-year contract with the World Series champions. The Giants matched a similarly structured offer from another club - knowing full well Huff wanted to stay.
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